Twitter mulls killing follower counts – The Washington Post

We’ve all seen the social media “experts” who signed up for Twitter accounts yesterday and have eleventy-billion followers today, and we all know how exactly how they get them. Now Twitter might be considering a replacement metric for follower count that more accurately measures how influential users are.Speaking at a BuzzFeed panel in New York yesterday, Twitter co-founder and board member Evan Williams said that reach is a much more important measure:

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